Thursday, January 19, 2017

The January sketch challenge for Creative Scrappers has been revealed at the start of the month right HERE and today is my turn to showcase my layout inspired by sketch #302.

Let's take a look at sketch #302... another fabulous sketch from Kristine Davidson!

As much as I do not enjoy Winter, I absolutely love creating Winter-themed layouts. Snowflakes, sparkle, white frosty tips... I love it all!

In the image above, you can see my title that was created on layers of different tags. Below, you see that I decided to overlay my distressed triangle shapes on my background and stitched them up just like patchwork.

I replaced the 3 pictures (which I didn't have) by rectangles of paper, thus adding colour and different patterns to my page. I made the white swirls myself by just drawing them out on white cardstock and cutting them out, then popping them up on my page with 3D foam squares.

For someone who doesn't enjoy Winter, I sure looked happy on this picture! ha! I am always happy in good company, no matter the season!

Here's to hoping that you will play along with us this month, if not already done.
Click HERE to find out more about the Creative Scrappers challenge and HERE to see my reveal on the CS blog!

Sunday, January 15, 2017

I took a little hiatus from blogging for 2 weeks it seems, but I am back again today to share this fun vintage layout featuring a beautiful photo of my mom as a young girl riding her bike!

If you're familiar with the most prominent challenge blogs out there (and a lover of kraft!), you probably have guessed which challenge inspired this layout. This month, Kraft+ is taking us on a creative ride and is asking for projects featuring a bike. Click HERE for all the details!

I really love this challenge and couldn't pass it up, especially since I had the perfect photo for it!

I used some very bright and fun patterned papers from Simple Stories' Carpe Diem collection as well as this cute wooden bike from Kaisercraft.

I did some stamping, misting and stenciling on the kraft background.

Look at those side mirrors on my mom's bike! Now that is an impressive ride!